Transcranial Doppler ultrasound: Valid, invalid, or both?

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 117, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1081-1083

  Ainslie, Philip N ^a   Hoiland, Ryan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

BLOOD; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOCAPNIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VASODILATATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOCAPNIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VASODILATION;

EID: 84911878683     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00854.2014     Document Type: Editorial

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